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Life Steal

Spell

Life Steal

Shadow

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Instant castCombat Range

Reduces target health by 30 and gives it to the caster.

Life Steal

Tooltip

Reduces target health by 30 and gives it to the caster.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Health Leech (effect type 9). Its base value is 30.

What it does

Life Steal is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 5 yards. When cast it drains health from the target (base value 30).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70631. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
Range5 yards (Combat Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Health Leech (9)
Value: 30

Raw client values from the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70631. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 4 separate Spell records named "Life Steal". This page is record #20004. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#146346school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#146347effect types: Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#172795effect types: noneA different effect setup

Compared fields: SpellMisc difficulty rows, school, cast time and duration; Spell subtext and tooltip text; SpellEffect types and base values; journal and class usage. The reason column names the first difference found.

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